The Maverick and the Machine (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Kevin Maney
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Biography and history
- Time of Work: 1874-2002
- Setting: New York City; Endicott, New York; Dayton, Ohio; and other cities
- Principal Characters: Thomas John Watson, Sr., John H. Patterson, Jeannette Kittredge Watson, Charles Ranlett Flint, Herman Hollerith, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fred Nichol, Ruth Leach, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Arthur (“Dick”) Watson
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, New York City, World War II, Depression, economic, Ohio, Business or business people, Nazism or Nazis, Employment or employees, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Technology, Computers, Corporations
- Locales: New York, NY, Dayton, OH
In The Maverick and His Machine, veteran technology columnist Kevin Maney credits Watson with three lasting contributions: “He turned information into an industry,” he “discovered the power of corporate culture,” and he “was the first celebrity CEO.” How Watson started out as a boy on a modest upstate New York family farm and eventually became the highest paid man in the United States is in many ways a classic rags-to-riches tale, complete with a plucky and industrious hero, youthful indiscretion and a fall that leads to new resolve, and a tremendous risk that pays...
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